Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Every discourse is an approximate answer: but it is of small consequence, that we do not get it into verbs and nouns, whilst it abides for contemplation forever.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Prospects." Nature, James Munroe and Company, 1836, p. 80.
He was an ordained Catholic Priest but broke with the Church when he advocated democracy and separation of church and state.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States.
